Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) (Volume 85)

Challenging and rewarding in equal measure Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Pontys most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato. Drawing on case studies such as brain-damaged patients from the First World War Merleau-Ponty brilliantly shows how the body plays a crucial role not only in perception but in speech sexuality and our relation to others.